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Egyptian Aak 2015 – Week 51 ( Dec 14-20)
Top Headlines
- Egypt to appoint international firm to review airport security. Monday
- UK report recommends no ban of Muslim Brotherhood, but warns of possible extremist links. Thursday
- Major general Moahmed Sharway will be replacing Major general Salah Hegazy as new head for National Security. Saturday
- Egyptian court releases amateur photographer Israa al-Taweel for her health conditions. Saturday
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt says no proofthat a terrorist attack has downed the Russian passenger plane in Sinai
- Egypt to hire foreign company to improve security at the airports
- Egypt’s Prime Minister: Renaissance Dam negotiations is currently difficult
- Immigration Minister to visit Egyptian migrant camps in Italy
- Egypt judge faces controversy over sensational interview
Tuesday
- Saudi King orders investments in Egypt exceed $8 billion
- Egypt’s Sisi discusses newly formed Islamic military coalition with Saudi defence minister
- Egyptian soldier dies in a suicide bombing in Al-Arish
- Brotherhood inter-generational conflicts persist
- African…
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Ladies Not So Free
Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life
A young woman was recently refused free entry at a Trinidad and Tobago nightclub because she was “dressed like a man,” according to the person working the door, and therefore did not meet the criteria of hyperfeminine gender presentation required for “ladies free”.
Nightclubs that advertise “ladies free” are actually using women as part of the experience they are selling to (heterosexual) men whom they perceive as their legitimate customers. This is the reason men are expected to pay and “ladies” are admitted “free”. It is neither an act of feminist benevolence nor discrimination against men that club owners have such policies. Such policies aid in heterosexualizing public spaces and reinforcing the notion that ALL women should be sexually available to men. These clubs with their dress codes, including the requirement that women wear heels, seek to reinforce a heterosexualised femininity, regulating gender and sexuality and often discriminating based on class, colour and…
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Description: http://bitly.com/1QDYobo | [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898] | Repository: California Historical Society Collection: Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection Photographer: Collins, Isabel Porter, 1875-1954 Date: circa 1895-1906 Call number: MSP 422 Digital object number: MSP 422.001.jpg Preferred citation: [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art stude…
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[Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898] by California Historical Society Digital Collection
Collection: Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection
Photographer: Collins, Isabel Porter, 1875-1954
Date: circa 1895-1906
Call number: MSP 422
Digital object number: MSP 422.001.jpg
Preferred citation: [Xavier Martinez (forefront, facing camera) and fellow art students at Mark Hopkins Institute of Art in San Francisco, Calif., ca. 1898], Photographs from Isabel Porter Collins collection, MSP 422, courtesy, California Historical Society, MSP 422.001.jpg
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Certificate of residence for Lem Shay, laundryman, age 35 years, of San Francisco by California Historical Society Digital Collection
Digital object ID: MS 3642.017.jpg
Call number: MS 3642
Collection: Certificates of residence for Chinese laborers, 1894-1897
Date: 1897 February 12
Preferred citation: Certificate of residence for Lem Shay, Certificates of residence for Chinese laborers, MS 3642, courtesy, California Historical Society, MS 3642.017.jpg.
Subjects:
California–Emigration and immigration–History–19th century.
Chinese Americans–California–History–19th century.
Chinese–California–History–19th century.
Identification cards.
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Description: http://bitly.com/1QAjgR6 | [Soledad Salas] | Repository: California Historical Society Photographer: C.A. Marston Date: circa 1870 Format: Carte de visite Digital object ID: CHS2014.1495.jpg Preferred citation: [Soledad Salas], courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2014.1495.jpg.
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Description: http://bitly.com/1QAjeIT | Portrait of Teresa Salas | Repository: California Historical Society Photographer: Sewell’s Art Gallery, Sonora, Cal. Date: circa 1872 Format: Carte de visite Digital object ID: CHS2010.373.jpg Preferred citation: Portrait of Teresa Salas, courtesy, California Historical Society, CHS2010.373.jpg.
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[Group portrait of men on horseback, Rancho Santa Anita] by California Historical Society Digital Collection
Collection: Photographs of Rancho Santa Anita
Date: circa 1890
Call number: PC 008
Digital object ID: PC008.019.jpg
Preferred citation: [Group portrait of men on horseback, Rancho Santa Anita], Photographs of Rancho Santa Anita, PC 008, courtesy, California Historical Society, PC008.019.jpg.
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Committee of Vigilance. by California Historical Society Digital Collection
Creator: San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851.
Date: 1851
Publication Note: [San Francisco] : Lith. by Alex Zakreski & Co., [1851?]
Physical Description: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 27 x 32 cm.
General Note: A blank certificate of membership for the Committee of Vigilance of the City of San Francisco, organized 9th June, 1851.
Call Number: Vault B-040
Digital object ID: Vault_B-040.jpg
Preferred Citation: Committee of Vigilance, Vault B-040, courtesy, California Historical Society, Vault_B-040.jpg.
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